As you ponder what you’d like to give birth to this Advent season, we’d like to invite you to join us in Wisdom Waypoints’ Psalm Circle where we gather Monday-Friday at 8:30 am eastern to chant the psalms.
We’re praying the psalms this Advent with Mary, the Blessed Virgin. And we hope you’ll say “yes” to this invitation to join our hearts with hers as we, too, prepare to give birth to something that has been calling to us to be and do.
Mary shows us how to bear new life, even as we bear and hold more of the brokenness of the world. She shows us how to wait for something new to be born out of seeming impossibility. Hers is the way of deep acceptance, even when things don’t make sense. She’s willing to hold a post–a “yes”– even as she wonders how God chose her. Mary holds heartbreaking tenderness, even in the midst unbearable sorrow. She knows a hope that endures beyond death, and does not lose heart even at the end–or the beginning.
Hope, Trust, Tenderness, Forbearance, Compassion, Acceptance, Love. These are some of the gifts we give and receive through the practice of chanting the psalms: Mary’s gifts. And while the psalms present us with the opportunity to see the full range of human emotions, during Advent the lectionary invites us into psalms that remind us to sing with joy (Psalm 98), with gladness and excitement (Psalm 122), and with hope and rejoicing (Psalm 85). They also remind us, as Mercy Sister Renee Yann (lavishmercy.com) says, to pray for the hungry, the grieving, the frightened, the lost, the lonely–“all the beloved, aching children of God” (Psalm 80 or 25, for example), whom Mary patrons.
During Advent we hold the light even when the dark moves into our lives. To wait and see what new life will be born. Our Marian emphasis will begin December 1, the first Monday after advent begins. Please join us during this special time in the Psalm Circle as we wait and hope together.
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